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Posted in Cheap, Raves, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Jan 4th, 2010
And again, happy 2010 to you all! I hope your new year’s was everything you wanted it to be, and that this year is full of delights, culinary and otherwise. One delight I’ll be making a lot more of in 2010 is these semi-homemade tortilla chips. I was going to write homemade, but then I [...]
Posted in Cheap, Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian on Dec 16th, 2009
I know that during FJ’s history I’ve referred to many foods as “one of the world’s most perfect foods.” Latkes, though, are the world’s most perfect food, singular. I started writing this kind of as a joke, but with a second of thought I realize that I’m not really joking at all. Potatoes and onions, [...]
Greetings from Turkey! Looks like I’m Junta’s continent-straddling correspondent, and I’ll be bringing you what Turkish cuisine I can fit intothese posts. For starters, this post is about anchovies (stay with me…). In Turkey, anchovies are called Hamsi (pronounced HAHM-see); veteran Food Junta blogger Wills and I made hamsi in Turkey, and we think you [...]
Usually when I’m at home over the holidays, one night my mom will make some wonderful Japanese dinner. And I will think to myself, I should really ask Mom to show me how she makes that. And then I don’t. But this time, when I was home for Thanksgiving, I finally did. And the result [...]
We at Food Junta love risotto. (You can see us loving all kinds of risotto here.) But what do you do with risotto leftovers? You do not reheat them, that’s for sure, unless you want to be dealing with a gummy mess. Risotto, friends, does not reheat well. It does, however, freeze well, which seems [...]